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Well, just a little short entry about a trip on Saturday. Gwen took me to the Washington-Alexandria Memorial Masonic Temple. I have seen the building many times before, especially since the Metro goes right past it and it is off the King Street platform. I remember flying into DC and seeing the temple out the window and thinking it was a county building or a judicial building. However, it is a Masonic Temple built in memory of George Washington. George Washington belonged to the Lodge in Alexandria. It is a fully operational Masonic Temple, but it also doubles as a museum for George Washington. It was fascinating. The first time I have been given a tour of a Masonic Temple. Always had to do my own exploring before.

It was very interesting. It gave quite a bit of history of Solomon’s Temple and attempted to recreate many scenes within. If you look at my pictures you will see pictures of some of it. Big sculptures of Washington dressed as a Mason. There are many pictures from the temple. The other pictures of from Mt. Vernon, Washington’s home. There is a man making his own lace. How very interesting! Washington’s carriage and chariot. There was all kinds of things. In the temple they had a bunch of crusader things that were the real thing! No replicas, real armor and sabers from the time period! It was all very interesting. Especially in relation to the LDS temple. Some claim we got our ordinances and material from the Masons. (If you do your history Joseph knew of the temple things almost 10 years before he joined the Masons) Anyhow, they have many interesting things.

George Washington is everywhere here. Rightly so, he was an amazing man. Anyhow, that is all I have for tonight.

Oh, I saw Rosa Parks today. That was interesting to see someone lay in state. Another significant thing for my time in DC.